Plan to build Palestinian state a sign of frustration over peace talks

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The Palestinian Prime Minister’s plan to build a functioning state, no matter what happens in negotiations with Israel, is a sign of the deep anger and frustration on both sides at almost two decades of peace talks that have failed to provide any result.

The original Oslo Accords, which were phased in from 1993, are now widely deemed a dead letter. The central problem on the Palestinian side was that the Palestinian Authority, at the time under Yassir Arafat, lacked a monopoly on the use of force, with a dozen disparate security branches and a host of militant groups all